Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Digital camera research

We had to find a digital camera before heading over to Namibia and wanted to get one with camcorder capability since we're going to have to produce a ministry DVD each year. I've been researching for a bunch of days and have narrowed it down to this one:

Here's what I wanted it to have:➀ Image Stabilisation - don't want it to be all blurry just because I'm shooting from the back of a moving truck➁ AA battery powered - have to be able to get replacement batteries anywhere➂ Hi-res movie capability - this one has the 640x480 at 30 frames per second; any less than 30 fps is jerky➃ Sound with the movies with low camera noise➄ Long movie clip length - the capper on this model is 4GB, 4x what most other consumer level digicams have➅ Not too expensive - can get it on Amazon for $250, plus a 2GB card as a bonus before June 11, 2007➆ Built-in flash

The only drawback that I could find for this camera is the long flash-recovery time but apparently you can't get short flash-recovery and AA battery power in the same model. In fact, every camera I saw reviewed online, even highly recommended or rated ones, seemed to have an equal-sized collection of pros-and-cons. No-one makes a great or perfect digital camera at the consumer level, it seems. So, every consumer review collection ranged from "love it. best camera ever!!!!!!!" to "sucks. do NOT BUY THIS pece of jnk!" Given that we're going to be taking pictures in a bright, sunny place, we figure flash delay is a small price to pay.

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I'm always curious about how it goes down, how my friends got with the one they're with. So, thanks to Survey Monkey, I'm now hosting a survey of my married friends. Click here to take the survey. Survey responses are anonymous; I'm just looking for an overall feel, general patterns. When I get 100 responses, I'll share the trends here on the Dancing Sni. I tried to come up with questions that people would enjoy answering. Please... feed my curiosity!